FLESHLESS (Cze): “Grindgod” Cd 1999 Obscene

RECENSORE: Unknown

VOTO: 6,00/10

DURATA: 62:46

Tracklist

1 - Daemonic Exordium ... 2 - Perverted Intention 3 - Exhumed Brutality 4 - 
                Evil Odium 5 - Grindgod 6 - Doomed Glorification of Blasphemy 
                7 - A Piece of Flesh 8 - Beautiful Enough to Kill 9 - Kazdy z 
                Nas ( Master's Hammer - Ritual ) 10 - Art of Horrification 11 
                - Death and Dying 12 - ... Final Desolation 13 - I Will Grind 
                Your Fingers 14 - Dismembered 15 - Eternal Suffer 16 - Positive 
                17 - Noise 18 - Intro 19 - Mental Dreams 20 - Faces of Decomposition 
                21 - Fleshless 22 - Land of Emptiness 23 - Sexual Carnage ( Remix 
                - Bonus )

One of the turn-over points of this release is the running

time, over one hour, including one bonus remix track and the full

demo (titled “Grinding”). Their contnuous abuse of the

word “grind”might be deceptive somewhat, as the band

has really little to do with this genre, instead FLESHLESS is

a ultra-brutal Death Metal act, backboned by an unrelenting drum

machine and blessed by carnal, full bodied downtuned vocals of

the gloomiest, darkest sort. Far from being unilaterally fast

and grinding (although that would not be a problem for me at all

ahr ahr), the songs are quite varied and count various semi-melodic

bridges and solos, all the while keeping a fairly fast pace even

when it turns more “hearable”. The band has obviously

kept a particular attention in giving every song its own definite

identity, so much that sometimes remind me of the CANNIBAL CORPSE

of “Butchered at Birth” (especially for the vocal tone/pattern)

yet with the aforementioned melodical interludes. Anyway just

like Buffalo’s gods, this band is capable of unrelenting, crunching,

sludgly guttural parts as well as kick-ass brutishness, I have

just to reckon that sometimes the riffs just get a bit too much

in the chugga chugga stopped style so much it almost sound like

some sort of jingle, which combined with their melodies gives

the Cd a few bad turns…. which in their demo tracks were not

present, so they must be some sort of “innovation” which

my close mindedness don’t really understand eheh… The cover

artwork still continues the really original concept of Disney

like comic-book characters involved in filthy scenes of gore,

with delicious pastel greens and violets in shape of dismemberments

and defleshed skulls. Whatever this artist Lhota is, he has quite

some talent… its style is quite different from the more classical

cheap 80’s comic book hand of countrymates PURULENT SPERMCANAL.

One last notes probably should go to the very good MASTER’S HAMMER

cover (don’t ask me to look on my keyboard for those weird characters,

but THAT was a band, ah… )